is my feature book for the #Friday56 Bookish Meme with Freda. I’m also taking part in Book Beginnings, a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader.

Here are a couple of sentences from page 56:

Florence Nightingale May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910. United Kingdom. Yes page 56 happens to be about a woman from the UK.

As soon as she arrived, Florence started collecting and examining all the data she could find. She discovered most of the soldiers died not because of their wounds, but because of infections and diseases contracted in the hospital.

Book Beginnings:

There are so many reasons why this book will always be special to us. Some are obvious: the record-breaking amount of money we raised through crowdfunding (more than one million dollars! Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is the most funded original book in the history of crowdfunding), the astonishing number of backers from more than 70 countries, and the privilege of working with dozens of unbelievably talented female artists from all over the world.